According to English-language reports, Bouchard faced backlash from Quebec press and online commentators on the grounds that a man can’t understand a woman’s experience, but that he dismissed the critics.

“They are saying we'll tolerate trans women as long as they are not in a position of power,” Bouchard told Canadian Press. “We’ll tolerate lesbians in the movement as long as they stand 10 feet away.”

The criticism “presumes all women live the same experience — which is not true,” he added.

“All the barriers I face are actually based in sexism. They also happen to be based in transphobia. I am living at the intersection of trans identity and being a woman, and it creates a marginalization that some women don’t face.”

But Campagne-Quebec Vie (Campaign Life Quebec) president Georges Buscemi has only noticed “an awkward silence in much of the media.”

Only the Journal du Montreal, “which is a kind of right-leaning paper,” is “trying to generate some kind of debate,” he told LifeSiteNews.

The Federation des Femmes du Quebec that Bouchard now leads is pro-abortion.

Moreover, according to its website, the federation “aims to deconstruct and eliminate patriarchy and all the other systems of oppression or domination with which it is intertwined, such as capitalism, racism, imperialism, heterosexism, colonialism, capacityism and ageism that work together to marginalize and exploit women sexually, socially, economically, culturally, politically and religiously.”

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